Canandaigua

Total for this ride: 28.7 miles

Total for this year: 80.7 miles

This ride is traditionally one of my first of the season.  A nice little warm-up.  It features a few notorious hills... Boughton Hill as you climb out of the village heading south toward the farms between Victor and Canandaigua, and either Church St. or Lynaugh Rd. right before getting back to the Quail Ridge neighborhood.  Today I chose to take Lynaugh with its 109 foot climb over just a quarter mile - an 8% grade.

I think I made pretty good time.  I'll have to compare this ride to the record I have of similar ones done over the past couple of years to see how it stacks up.  I will say that it was still cold out - temps in the low 40's - and windy.  Stopped for a few minutes on the pier in Canandaigua to get a few pics.

 

The new bike handled well. Still getting used to the shifters - the right (rear gears) is no problem at all. But I'm still having problems with the left (front gears). My position on the bike still feels a little cramped, but that may be all in my mind. I'll have to ride the old and new Treks back to back to get a better comparison of the differences.